Steam-separator.



No. 890,537. PATENTE D JUNE 9, 1908.

W. E. STANLEY.

STEAM SEPARATOR.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 26,1907.

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WILLIAM EDWARD STANLEY, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

STEAM-SEPARATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 26, 1907.

PatentedZJune 9, 1908.

Serial No. 385,599.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM EDWARD STANLEY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Louisville, in the county of Jefferson andState of Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Steam-Separator, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improvement in steam separators as are ordinarilylocated between a boiler and an engine to insure a working of the engineunder dry steam only.

The object, primarily, of the invention is to provide a simpleconstruction of this nature which will remove from the steamsubstantially all the water, leaving the steam in an approximately drystate. This I accomplish by providing a vertical casing having a steamsupply leading into its upper end, and a stand-pipe projecting upwardlyfrom its base in connection with a steam outlet pipe. The stand pipecarries a tubular head preferably slightly tapered and provided withperforations upwardly and inwardly inclined, whereby the steam inpassing therethrough, will shed the water, which will be dischargedthrough the bottom of the casing.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing forming a part ofthis specification, in which the figure therein represented is avertical, central section of the preferred embodiment of my improvedseparator.

In the preferred practical construction of my improved steam separator,I employ a tubular casing or shell 10, having the oppo site ends thereofeXteriorly threaded, and on which are screwed flanges 11, the same beingconnected with flanges 12 as by bolts 13, said flanges covering thebottom and top of the casing, respectively. The casing, when disposed inoperative position and substantially vertically arranged, has a steamsupply pipe 14 leading into its upper end as by threading said pipe intothe top flange 12, and a steam outlet pipe 15 connecting with and madeas a separate part or integral with a stand pipe 16 threaded through thebottom flange 12, and projecting upwardly within the casing a suitabledistance. Should the stand pipe be made separate from the outlet pipe15, as shown in the drawing, I preferably connect their opposed threadedends together by a coupling 17.

Threaded or otherwise secured to the upper end of the stand pipe 16 isthe primary feature of my invention, the same consisting of a tubularhead 18 preferably tapered to make it of conical form, with the enlargedend at the top, where it is provided with. an integral conical top 19. Aseries of circumferential, downwardlydirected, V-shaped grooves areformed in the head 18, through the bottom of which pass a number ofupwardly inclined apertures 20, the combined sectional area of saidapertures being preferably about twice the area of the cross section ofthe pipe 16. At the bottom of the casing 10 is a drain pipe 2 1, and ata point thereabove a water-gage 21 is connected at its opposite ends tothe casing which, as shown, is provided with valves 22 and with adraincock 23 connected with the lower valve.

The steam, on entering the pipe 14, descends and passes through theseveral apertures in the tubular head 18 and thence through the standpipe 16 through the outlet pipe 15. As the steam passes through theapertures 20, which are very small in diameter, the water in effect issqueezed out and is not permitted to pass within the head by reason oftheir upward inclination. As the water sheds from the apertures, itdrops to the bottom of the casing without striking that portion of thehead below it, on account of the slight taper given this part of theseparator. The water, on passing to the bottom of the casing, isdischarged through the pipe 24, which ordinarily connects with a steamtrap (not shown). Should the flow of water through the pipe 24 for anyreason become checked and not be discharged as rapidly as it isseparated from the steam, it will be at once indicated by the water-gage21.

The invention as shown and described, although being my preferredpractical embodiment of my improved steam separator, may obviously beslightly modified within the scope of the annexed claims.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A steam separator comprising a substantially vertical casing, havinga steam inlet at its top and a steam outlet in its bottom, a stand pipeof smaller diameter than the casing and projecting upwardly from thebottom into the same and forming a continuation of the steam outlet ofthe casing, and a tapering head having a conical top and secured at itssmaller end to the end of the stand pipe within the casing, said headbeing provided with a plurality of circumferential combined sectionalarea of the said openings being about twice the cross sectional area ofthe stand pipe.

2. A steam separator, comprising a substantially vertical casing havinga steam inlet in its top and a steam outlet in its bottom, a stand pipeof smaller diameter than the casing and projecting from the bottom intothe same and forming a continuation of the steam outlet of the casing,and a conical head open at its smaller end and closed at the larger endand having its smaller end secured 15 clined apertures in the bottoms ofthe 20 grooves.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM EDWARD STANLEY. I/Vitnesses:

FREDERICK WILLIAM TAYLOR, TRAVIS KAVANAUGH.

